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| Foreword | |
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| To the student | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who should use this book? | |
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| How is this book structured? | |
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| Icons used | |
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| Conventions used | |
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| How to use this book? | |
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| Some assumptions | |
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| What will you achieve? | |
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| Overview of the units in this book | |
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| Health and the net--an overview | |
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| The World Wide Web | |
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| Databases | |
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| Electronic mail | |
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| Newsgroups | |
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| Mailing lists | |
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| Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | |
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| Voice on the Net (VON) | |
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| File transfer protocol (FTP) | |
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| Archie | |
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| Gopher | |
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| Telnet | |
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| Publishing on the net | |
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| Online help with your health studies and job search | |
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| Getting online | |
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| Obtaining a college computing account | |
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| Ten key points for protecting your password | |
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| Choosing and remembering a password | |
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| Getting started with the college computing system | |
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| Regulations governing college computing facilities | |
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| Activity: Logging on to your college system | |
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| Getting started with a computing system at home | |
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| Activity: Equipment needed to surf the net | |
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| Which computer? | |
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| Activity: which VDU? | |
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| Which modem? | |
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| Incoming calls and call waiting | |
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| Which type of telephone line? | |
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| Which communication software? | |
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| Which Internet Service Provider? | |
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| How does an account with a service provider work? | |
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| Taking out a subscription | |
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| Signing up | |
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| How does one get an account for a system at home? | |
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| How do I use an online service? | |
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| JANET and the web | |
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| Activity: Checklist for JNDS account | |
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| The world wide web | |
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| Understanding the web | |
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| The nature of hypertext and hyperlinks | |
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| Recognising a link | |
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| Storage of web pages | |
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| Web browsers | |
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| Starting your browser | |
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| Activity: Logging on and off the Internet on the college network | |
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| Some important features of Internet Explorer and NetScape browsers | |
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| Anatomy of a web page | |
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| Web addresses (URLs) | |
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| Some common service types | |
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| Domain names | |
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| Navigating the web | |
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| Internet Explorer toolbar | |
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| Activity: Exploring the web | |
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| Address or Location box | |
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| Hotlists | |
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| Exchanging hotlists | |
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| Activity: Entering URLs and adding interesting sites to your hotlist | |
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| Selected UK and foreign web sites applicable for nursing and allied professions | |
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| Associations, organisations and UK statutory bodies | |
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| Adult nursing and medicine | |
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| Alternative medicine | |
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| General health information | |
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| Mental health nursing, psychiatry and learning disabilities | |
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| Midwifery and health visiting | |
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| Paediatric nursing and medicine | |
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| Paramedical | |
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| Healthcare research | |
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| Journals for health professionals | |
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| Libraries and free health databases | |
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| Electronic publication and citation | |
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| Quality of public services | |
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| Finding health information on the internet | |
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| Tools for searching health, medical and general web sites | |
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| Web directories | |
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| Carrying out a search using a web directory | |
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| Activity: making a simple search using Yahoo | |
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| Some search strategies | |
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| How to set search options | |
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| Search results | |
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| Browsing Yahoo's web directory | |
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| Activity: Browsing Yahoo! UK and Ireland | |
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| Search engines | |
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| How to select the right search engine to use | |
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| Carrying out a search using a search engine | |
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| Activity: Exploring a web site using Lycos | |
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| Activity: Exploring a web site using alternative search engines | |
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| Information gateways for health and medical sources | |
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| NHS Gateway | |
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| OMNI | |
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| SOSIG | |
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| Health on the net (HON) | |
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| Activity: Bookmarking sites of interest | |
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| Activity: Database searching using OMNI | |
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| Online databases relevant to health students and staff | |
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| Activity: What's available | |
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| Developing search strategies | |
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| Activity: Writing a search statement | |
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| Searching databases | |
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| Activity: Searching health databases | |
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| Printing your finds | |
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| Communicating with other health professionals by e-mail | |
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| Understanding the electronic mail system | |
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| How does e-mail work? | |
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| Downsides of e-mail | |
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| E-mail programs | |
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| E-mail headers | |
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| Understanding electronic mail addresses | |
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| The anatomy of an e-mail address | |
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| Reading e-mail addresses | |
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| Typing e-mail addresses | |
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| Finding e-mail addresses | |
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| Using e-mail on a college network | |
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| The mechanics of e-mail | |
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| Undelivered e-mail | |
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| Replying to e-mail messages | |
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| Using reply to answer e-mail messages | |
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| Forwarding e-mail and the law | |
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| Activity: Using Simeon mail | |
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| Attaching files | |
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| Attachment problems | |
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| Activity: attaching files to an e-mail message | |
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| Deleting or moving incoming mail | |
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| Creating folders | |
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| Activity: Forwarding, saving, printing, deleting, undeleting, creating a new folder, transferring messages to other folders | |
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| What you need to use e-mail at home | |
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| Activity: What do you need? | |
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| E-mail conventions (netiquette) | |
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| Do's and don'ts | |
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| Flaming health professionals | |
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| Coping with e-mail overload | |
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| Composing e-mail online | |
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| Using keyboard characters to convey feelings | |
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| Symbols and acronyms | |
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| Other options and issues | |
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| Signatures | |
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| Address books | |
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| Activity: Create an address book and a signature file in Simeon | |
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| Joining health discussion groups, mailing lists etc. | |
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| Getting involved with newsgroups | |
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| How do newsgroups work? | |
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| Newsgroup names | |
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| Reading articles | |
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| Activity: Using your home or college system to read articles | |
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| Keeping the cost down | |
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| Old news | |
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| Newsgroup netiquette | |
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| Posting your first article | |
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| Activity: Posting and follow-ups of articles to newsgroups | |
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| Online help | |
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| Posting header fields | |
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| Asking for help from newsgroups | |
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| Getting involved with mailing lists | |
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| Mailing addresses | |
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| Determining administrative addresses | |
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| Finding a mailing list | |
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| Getting on and off a mailing list | |
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| Activity: Subscribing to a mailing list | |
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| Receiving mailing list messages | |
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| Sending messages to a mailing list | |
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| Making special requests to mailing lists | |
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| Locating archives of past messages | |
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| Obtaining a list of subscribers | |
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| Concealing your name | |
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| Starting an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | |
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| Connecting to IRC | |
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| Activity: Using mIRC to chat and talk | |
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| Some IRC commands | |
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| Hearing your voice on the net | |
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| Activity: Checklist of hardware specifications | |
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| A selection of VON programs | |
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| The gateway to free health and medical resources | |
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| FTP - What is it? | |
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| Private vs anonymous sites | |
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| How to get access to FTP sites | |
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| Activity: Using your browser to access FTP sites | |
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| Using a dedicated FTP program | |
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| Activity: Using a dedicated FTP program to access FTP sites | |
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| Using an e-mail program to get to FTP sites | |
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| Using Archie to find the health material you want | |
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| Activity: Using Archie to find a file | |
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| Gopherspace | |
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| How does a Gopher work? | |
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| Telnet your way to nursing and medical literature | |
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| Activity: searching library catalogues from home | |
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| Publishing on the world wide web | |
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| The web language | |
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| How does HTML work? | |
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| Creating a simple web page | |
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| Activity: Steps for creating a simple web page | |
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| Maximising HTML | |
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| Formatting text | |
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| Heading tags | |
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| Inserting paragraphs and lines | |
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| Creating links to other sites | |
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| Activity: Linking your web page to other website(s) | |
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| Adding pictures | |
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| Using HTML editors | |
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| Getting your web page on the net | |
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| Broadcasting your web page | |
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| Online help with your health studies and job search | |
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| Using online tutorials to develop study skills for health courses | |
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| Evaluating health and medical resources available on the web | |
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| Referencing health material obtained from electronic sources | |
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| What is meant by referencing? | |
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| Formats of references | |
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| Referencing internet sources | |
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| Referencing non-internet sources | |
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| Finding a health or health related job online | |
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| Twelve big questions and answers | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The user agreement | |
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| UK service providers | |
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| Country codes | |
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| Troubleshooting error messages | |
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| Glossary of terms | |
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| References and recommended further reading | |
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| Worksheets | |
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| Logging on and off the internet on a college network | |
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| Exploring the World Wide Web | |
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| Entering URLs | |
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| Adding a website address to a hotlist | |
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| Searching with Yahoo's web directory | |
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| Browsing with Yahoo's web directory | |
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| Searching with Lycos | |
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| Database searching with OMNI | |
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| Searching health databases (CINAHL) | |
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| Using online help to get started with newsgroups | |
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| Creating a session profile | |
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| Searching library catalogues from home | |
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| Searching library catalogues from home (2) | |
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| Creating a simple web page | |
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| Creating a simple web page (2) | |
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| Creating a link to another web site | |
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| Creating a link to another web site (2) | |
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| Index | |